post #1
27 July 2004, 14:41 UTC#1
Ppl with low self esteem get a fuck outta this tread - http://www.museumofconceptualart.com/accomplished/
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post #2
27 July 2004, 14:53 UTC#2
Fuck.....
QUOTE Age 16: Cornelius Vanderbilt began a ferry service between New York City and Staten Island.
QUOTE Age 16: Cornelius Vanderbilt began a ferry service between New York City and Staten Island.
post #3
27 July 2004, 15:47 UTC#3
QUOTE At age 20:
Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard and cofounded Microsoft.
QUOTE English novelist Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, which was immediately successful.
QUOTE Charles Lindbergh learned to fly.
QUOTE John Stuart Mill pulled himself out of depression and found that the ordinary events of life could again give him some moderate amounts of pleasure. He decided that happiness is attained not by making it the direct goal of life, but by fixing one's mind on some other pursuit.
I don't know, but I find that kind of cool
QUOTE Alexander Graham Bell taught a stray Skye Terrier to talk; by training the dog to growl on cue and then manipulating his mouth and throat, Bell could make him produce the phonemes "ow, ah, ooh, ga, ma, ma," to say "How are you, Grandmama?"
that's just nonsensical.
Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard and cofounded Microsoft.
I don't know, but I find that kind of cool
that's just nonsensical.
post #4
27 July 2004, 15:58 UTC#4
I hate that thing
post #5
28 July 2004, 10:34 UTC#5
Age 16:
I don't really care about these fucks
QUOTE
Legendary womanizer and adventurer Casanova was expelled from a seminary for moral misconduct.
Cuban revolutionary Jose Marti had his first arrest and exile.
However, these bastards are making me look bad
QUOTE Albert Einstein wrote an essay containing the beginnings of the special theory of relativity. In it, Einstein showed that time and motion are relative to the observer.
American sharpshooter Annie ("Annie Get Your Gun") Oakley challenged and defeated the well-known marksman Frank Butler, whom she later married. She could hit a dime in mid-air from 90 feet.
George McFarland ("Spanky" in the Our Gang series) retired from the movies and spent the rest of his life doing sales and charity work.
Sir Henry Morton Stanley ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume?") sailed for New Orleans as a cabin boy.
Cornelius Vanderbilt began a ferry service between New York City and Staten Island.
Tennis player Tracy Austin became the youngest person to win the U.S. Open.
Guitar player and songwriter Maybelle Carter invented the 'Carter lick,' which used the thumb to play melody and changed the role of the guitar in country music to that of a lead instrument.
American poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant wrote the first draft of his most famous poem, Thanatopsis.
American film director Howard Hawks became a professional car and airplane racer.
Patrick Taylor left home in Beaumont, Texas with only a suitcase full of clothes, 35 cents and the desire to attend college. Evenually he earned a petroleum engineering degree and became one of the richest men in Louisiana.
Also, this is just sad, and with me being from KY, it makes it even worse External image not preserved — inspect source: http://homegrownforums.com/forums/html/emoticons/suspicious.gif
QUOTE Harold Mark Foster of Owensboro, KY, began learning to read.
I don't really care about these fucks
QUOTE
Legendary womanizer and adventurer Casanova was expelled from a seminary for moral misconduct.
Cuban revolutionary Jose Marti had his first arrest and exile.
However, these bastards are making me look bad
American sharpshooter Annie ("Annie Get Your Gun") Oakley challenged and defeated the well-known marksman Frank Butler, whom she later married. She could hit a dime in mid-air from 90 feet.
George McFarland ("Spanky" in the Our Gang series) retired from the movies and spent the rest of his life doing sales and charity work.
Sir Henry Morton Stanley ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume?") sailed for New Orleans as a cabin boy.
Cornelius Vanderbilt began a ferry service between New York City and Staten Island.
Tennis player Tracy Austin became the youngest person to win the U.S. Open.
Guitar player and songwriter Maybelle Carter invented the 'Carter lick,' which used the thumb to play melody and changed the role of the guitar in country music to that of a lead instrument.
American poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant wrote the first draft of his most famous poem, Thanatopsis.
American film director Howard Hawks became a professional car and airplane racer.
Patrick Taylor left home in Beaumont, Texas with only a suitcase full of clothes, 35 cents and the desire to attend college. Evenually he earned a petroleum engineering degree and became one of the richest men in Louisiana.
Also, this is just sad, and with me being from KY, it makes it even worse External image not preserved — inspect source: http://homegrownforums.com/forums/html/emoticons/suspicious.gif
post #6
29 July 2004, 02:44 UTC#6
At age 13 I decided to fuck up my life and hurt myself for fun
post #7
29 July 2004, 02:45 UTC#7
lol, me too, that was about the age I was when we started....I might have been 12 though at the time, it was sometime in 2000....
post #8
29 July 2004, 03:47 UTC#8
at age 11 i decided to skateboard.